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Show n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Monroe Austin, aged 12, was seriously seri-ously injured at Monlpelier, Idaho, when he was kicked by a horse. Grain buyers at Malad, Idaho, are up against a car shortage. They have bought grain until every available inc hof room Is filled. La Plata City, a mining camp in Colorado, is practically) burled under snowslides, which have run down three mountainsides on to the town. M. Barlos, a tailor of Pocatello, Idaho, who was ordered to pay all back occupation taxes and fined $25 for failure to pay same on demand, has filed a motion for appeal to the district court, and will test the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the occupation tax law. A directed verdict of not guilty was returned in district court at Trinidad, Colo., In the case of Walter Brelk, a detective, charged with the murder of Luke Vaheernick, a striking coal miner at Forbes, Colo., October 17, 1913. George Qulnn was handed at the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., for the murder of William R. Ilerbertson (In Denver, October 24, 1914, following a quarrel over Mrs. Ilerbertson. Mervln Daines, aged 22, ' and A. Woolf, aged 28, of Hyde Park Utah,, met death in a snowslide in the mountains moun-tains about three miles east of town. Near The Dalles, Ore., a freight train ran into a work train in a blinding blind-ing snowstorm and killed six men. At Butte a street car slipped on icy tracks and twelve passengers were injured. in-jured. Snowslides at Bingham, Utah, have seriously damaged a dozen houses and police officers have compelled five families to move from houses threatened threat-ened with destruction. DOMESTIC. 1 Reports received from flood-ravaged valleys of San Diego county show that a total of thirty-four bodies have been recovered, and raised estimates esti-mates of the total death toll to sixty-five. sixty-five. Three thousand persons were homeless. President Wilson, speaking at Cleveland, as he said, "solemnly," warned the nation that the time may come when he cannot both keep the United States out of war and maintain main-tain its honor, and declared that the country must 'be prepared to defend itself and be prepared at once. Two persons lost their lives in a fire which started in a restaurant at Drumright, Okla., a small oil town. One officer and three soldiers were seriously injured and Ave soldiers received re-ceived minor injuries and cuts when an explosion occurred in the old Cu-nard Cu-nard building at Halifax, N. S., where a military class in bomb manufacturing manufactur-ing was listening to a lecture. Laborers for railroad construction in eastern states are being sought in Missouri and Kansas for the first time, because! the war had drawn so many foreign laborers back to their native countries. Half a million dollars is the estimate esti-mate of the damage in Phoenix and vicinity caused by the storm and floods of the last few days. Flood conditions prevail throughout Arizona, Ari-zona, but, according to advices, no lives! have been lost. When the lower dam of the San Diego -water system in the Otay valley val-ley south of San Diego broke under the heavy pressure of the flood waters at least fifty persons perished, being caught by a wall of water thirty feet high. Houses on twenty-five ranches were swept away. Warden Sale of the North Carolina penitentiary died of apoplexy after supervising su-pervising the electrocution of two negroes. ne-groes. The warden appeared agitated is he unstrapped the bodies of the negroes ne-groes from the electric chair and shortly afterwards became unconscious. uncon-scious. The Italian liners America and Verona Ve-rona will be permitted to sail from Two thousand American citizens of Hungarian birth crowded the Garden theater, New York City, Sunday night, at a mass meeting called to protest aeainst any discrimination against them because of their origin. .Si-arch continues near San Francisco Francis-co for the bodies of eight men believed be-lieved to have been lo-t when the steam schooner Aberdeen, a garbage carrier, broke up outside the harbor. More than 1UU firemen were overcome over-come by smoke and gas fumes Friday while fighting the most stubborn blaze Detroit has had in fifteen years. The property loss was $200,000. Four armed robbers entered the Washington Park National bank at Chicago, threatened the lives of the cashier, clerks and twenty depositors and escaped with $15,000. Rain and windstorms are playing havoc with property in southern California. Cal-ifornia. WASHINGTON. Telegrams from William J. Bryan and Henry Ford denouncing the administration's ad-ministration's program of preparedness prepared-ness were cheered at a mass meeting at Washington under the auspice6 of eighteen peace societies. Secretary Lansing has denied published pub-lished reports that the United States had given Germany until February 5 to make a definite answer on whether it intends to disavow the sinking of the Lusitania. The urgent deficiency bill, first of the appropriation measures, was passed by the senate Saturday, carrying carry-ing $13,523,247, which is $951,150 more than the amount passed by the house. A suggestion that all the belligerent belliger-ent countries subscribe to a declaration declara-tion of principles governing attacks on merchant vessels and forbidding the arming of such vessels has been made by the United States in an effort to establish in international law a general gen-eral policy disposing of many of the vexatious problems arising from the development of submarine warfare. Prohibition for the District of Columbia Co-lumbia is the object of a bill reported without recommendation by the senate sen-ate committee which handles the local affairs of the capital. FOREIGN. Fifty-two persons were killed or wounded in a Zeppelin raid on Paris, Saturday night. Nine women were killed and fourteen wounded; fourteen four-teen men were killed and fifteen wounded. j ,The Russians are surrounding Er-zerum, Er-zerum, from which city the Turkish authorities have fled, according to reports re-ports reaching, Athens. A strong Russian Rus-sian column is advancing to the Tigris valley, the advices add. An Exchange Telegram dispatch states that a military train from Freiburg Frei-burg was blown up during a French air raid. Many persons were killed and wounded. The starvation and distress reported report-ed among the native population, of the Mexican state of Sonora can hardly aqual the conditions that prevail in .he states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango, according to J. W. New-come, New-come, a British doctor, who has just left that section. , Floods in the Zamboanga province of Mindanao have been the most extensive ex-tensive in some settlements In the upper Augusan .district where the low country is entirely under water. Colonel Edward M. House, President Wilson's personal representative, has left Berlin for Paris and London by way of Switzerland. Denmark is threatened with serious labor troubles, according to the Times Copenhagen correspondent who says that strike involving 25,000 men will be called in the shipyards. A dispatch from The Hague Says Judge Ben Lindsey has left Holland :or Berlin to study the needs of children chil-dren in the belligerent countries. It is said Henry Ford, before leaving Christiania, told Mr. Lindsey that if it were feasible he wouldi provide ample funds to help the children. Through snow, in some places fourteen four-teen feet deep, the Russians are continuing con-tinuing the pursuit of the fleeing Turks in the Caucasus. Confiscation of property in Sonora state belonging to Mexicans classed by the de facto Carranza government as "reactionaries" has been ordered in a decree issued by General P. Ellas Calles, military governor. The Giornale Italia's Athens correspondent corre-spondent says the Italians have decided de-cided to abandon Durazzo, Albania, owing to the fact that its defense presents pre-sents most serious difficulties. The British parliament has been prorogued until February 15. In the prorogation King George said: "We New York if the Italian government gives assurances as it did in the case of the Guiseppe Verdi, that their guns will be used only for defensive purposes. pur-poses. Francisco Perez, an alleged cattle thief and associate of the Duran brothers who were executed at Juarez for the murder of the American, Bert Akers, was shot and killed at Yaleta. Texas, Friday. Louis D. Brandeis of Boston has been nominated by President Wilson for the place on the supreme court bench made vacant by the death of Associate Justice Lamar. President Wilson on Thursday night Bt New York opened his personal appeal ap-peal to the country for national defense. de-fense. He gave warning that plans for the readjustment of the army must be formulated and carriedr out without delay, and solemnly declared he could not predict that the outlook for the United States would be as bright tomorrow as today. More than 8,000,000 members of six branches of the Methodist church will be represented at a conference on church unity to be held at Chicago February 10-17. shall not lay down our arms until we have vindicated the cause which carries car-ries with it the future of civilization." The attitude of Japan and that o the other entente allies towards the Chinese monarchical movement will henceforth be that of "vigilance." That is the word which appears in the brief identical note presented by all the allied powers at Pekin a few days igo. Germany is continuing her efforts ;o conclude a separate peace with Serbia, accordingto the Athens correspondent corre-spondent of the London Daily Mail. Early renewal of German military activities along the northern end of :he Russian front in the Riga and Dvinsk districts, is forecast by Russian Rus-sian military critics. Their expectation expecta-tion is based in part on the unusual activity of German aircraft in recon-noitering recon-noitering the Russian lines. An angry crowd at Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, tore down a German flag which had been hoisted by the German consul in honor of Emperor William's birthday. The federal council coun-cil of Switzerland has offered an apology apol-ogy to Germany. |